18+ Best WordPress Travel Blog Themes for 2018

For this exciting Siteturner round-up, we’ve selflessly gathered up the best WordPress travel blog themes for 2018. If you’re a travel enthusiast, and want to start sharing tales of your adventures on your very own WordPress website, one of these themes might come in handy.

During the time we spent searching the internet for the top travel blog themes, we noticed something interesting. Many of the collections on other blogs focused primarily on themes for travel agencies and agents. We didn’t want to do that here. We’ve put together another list of the best travel agency themes. The themes featured on this list are exclusively for travel blogging.

For a travel blog theme, your requirements will likely be minimal. Basically, you want to make sure the theme you choose is responsive, and that it supports all of the standard features that come with WordPress. We suspect many readers who’ve landed here from Google are interested in emulating other popular travel blogs, like The Blonde Abroad and Nomadic Matt. In some cases you might want to set up a travel-oriented shop and sell items, and there are several themes on this list that support WooCommerce for that.

If it turns out you can’t find what you’re looking for on this list, we’ve also compiled a collection of some of the best all-purporse WordPress blog themes here.

We selected these themes by hand, based on quality of design, and how suitable they are for use on a travel blog.

A loose order intended, starting with…

WPVoyager

Every now and again a theme comes along that we get pretty excited about. The WPVoyager theme fully embraces a content-first design sensibility. It’s minimal and clean, prioritizing user experience, readability & performance over distracting visual flourishes and over-baked gimmicks.

Google Maps API integration and KML support are an especially nice touch, providing your readers with a richer experience, and not offered by most higher-profile competitors.

The social media and sharing options are wonderfully implemented, and the designers have made sure that WPVoyager works flawlessly and looks just as awesome on any device you view might it on. WPVoyager supports Contact Form 7 and is translation ready. Kudos to the developer for putting together such a cool product!

Voyager

Voyager is literally more than just a travel blogging theme: five distinct demos are also included, each suitable for a specific niche — travel, fashion, wedding, food, and construction. But we suspect it was designed first and foremost for travel bloggers, as the name implies, with a lot of focus on photo galleries and slideshows.

The features are no less comprehensive than you’d expect from a product of this caliber: at risk of invoking a cliche, the design is exceedingly clean & modern, optimized for both performance and usability. Mobile devices are fully supported, including high resolution devices, so users can expect a consistent experience regardless of whether they’re viewing the site on a smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop.

Like many modern WordPress themes, Voyager is built on top of the ubiquitous and popular Bootstrap framework from Twitter. Back-end options are plentiful, and a 1-click-install guarantees a fast & easy setup both beginners and experts will appreciate. Recommended!

Hermes

A popular choice from the ThemeForest marketplace, Hermes is a feature-packed travel blog theme with a variety of layouts and styles to choose from. Review and polling functionality is included, as well as superior integration with all top social media sites. The Wiloke plugin is supported, providing codeless front-end page building.

Universe

Universe takes a top spot on our roundup mainly due to its minimalistic elegance. Streamlined and content-focused, this blogging theme–suitable not only for travel blogs, but a variety of niches–is a breeze to install, setup and maintain.

It’s fully responsive & retina ready, SEO friendly, and easy to tweak and customize using the options panel. The developers take a less-is-more approach that pays off. Recommended.

Travelista

Travelista is one of the newest entries on our list, and designed specifically for travel bloggers.

Travelista is a responsive, retina-ready theme, so it will look flawless on any device. It includes eight layout options, and supports all nine WordPress post formats.

The extensive options panel gives you plenty of control over how things look and are laid out on the front-end. Choose from an unlimited number of colors and customize your typography with over 60 Google fonts.

A lovely homepage slider is included, as well as fifteen custom widgets.

Travelog

With its map features, Travelog occupies a space similar to our top pick WPVoyager. The design and development team notes that they researched the specific requirements of travel bloggers, and built the theme with their unique needs in mind.

The design is clean and contemporary, and six subtly different presets and layouts are included. The UX is familiar and intuitive, and performance is responsive and speedy. A comprehensive settings panel powered by Redux and accessible via the WordPress Live Customizer gives webmasters lots of control over colors & fonts, various elements, and other features.

Travelogue is simple to install, superbly documented and translation-ready (with WPML support). As you’d expect, it’s fully responsive, and looks fantastic across the wide range of mobile devices. One of our favorites.

Live!

That brings us to a theme that we’ve included partly because it’s different. Live comes with six different presets to choose from, including one designed specifically for travel bloggers. A quirky choice of fonts, and the deliberate reduction of white space, offers a unique look that some of our other selections don’t.

Live is user-friendly for visitors, and on the back-end for webmasters, and includes useful and engaging features like infinite scrolling, sticky sidebars, parallax backgrounds, and animated post images. Three different gallery layouts are also included.

Live is optimized for social media , fully responsive/retina-ready, well-documented & easy to install.

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Insight

At Siteturner, we’re suckers for clean, unobtrusive design that focuses readers on content. Insight fits the bill. It’s not specifically a travel blogging theme – it would just as easily work for a design blog, or something like that – but we think those gorgeous stock photos on the demo illustrate its potential for travel writing and photo blogging.

Insight comes to us from the WordPress experts at WPZOOM, and the theme is built on their own awesome ZOOM framework. It’s easy to use and customize, and layout management/page building is intuitive, via widgetized areas. Posts are arranged on a grid or familiar, classic list, and many other other tweaks & options are available through the visual customizer on the back-end.

As you might expect, Insight is optimized for mobile and retina devices. Its translation-ready, and its well-supported by the professional, responsive team at WPZOOM.

A nice selection of custom widgets and shortcodes are packed in, and the theme supports Contact Form 7. Colors and typography can be adjusted on the back-end and comprehensive documentation is provided.

Medym Travel

Not just a WordPress travel blog theme, Medym packs in a lot of value, including six distinct presets ready to go out-of-the-box. The styles include: travel, tech, lifestyle, fashion, news, and a generic option versatile enough to match many different niches.

We expect Medym will appeal to webmasters hoping to eventually expand their blog into a full-blown online travel magazine — there’s plenty of flexibility to found here in regard to layout, and the included page builder is simple & intuitive.

Performance is speedy and responsive, thanks to a lightweight code base and restrained design, and the UX familiar & friendly.

Share

Much of the impact of the Share theme comes from its brilliant integration of striking, responsive photography that dynamically resizes to fit whatever device or browser you view it on.

Beyond the impressive, immersive design, the Share theme is easy to install, use, and customize. All of WordPress’s own post formats are supported, and slick animations adds another layer of visual flair.

Social sharing is smartly integrated, and the theme is SEO optimized and translation ready out the box.

Meek

The Meek theme is responsive and comes in two versions, light and dark. It’s a simple, straight-forward theme that’s easy to use and optimized for speed.

Custom widgets for Flickr, social links and post-it notes are included, and related posts functionality is built-in. The theme is easy to customize thanks to the useful options panel, and is translation ready.

Journal

Journal’s elegant, warm design makes it perfect for use as a WordPress travel blog theme. Responsive and high resolution, Journal is built on Twitter Bootstrap 3 and looks excellent on mobile devices of all types.

There’s a lot of nice features with this one. It supports seven post formats, and comes with seven custom widgets for Flickr, Twitter, Dribbble and more. Excellent social media integration is a nice touch, as well as support for the Contact Form 7 plugin.

Users can create an eye-catching background slider, or upload static background images. Lots of advanced typography and color options are available thanks to the Redux Framework options panel on the backend.

Twenties

Twenties isn’t a travel theme, per se, but it works. This minimalistic, classic looking blog theme is fast and simple to use for beginners. Three built-in color schemes are provided: dark, light and pink.

The theme is SEO optimized, and provides all the options you need for customization (using the WordPress Theme Customizer for real-time previewing). Contact Form 7 is supported, and several use custom widgets are bundled in.

And once again, we find ourselves at the the end of another Siteturner round-up. We hope you’ve found our look at the best WordPress travel blog themes helpful. As always, if you’ve got any additions or suggestions or complaints, let us know in the comments.

I have a travel blog footloosedev.com any suggestions what to chose from. I am not looking for a paid theme as of now.
My requirements: a slider at top followed by block-format feature images for posts

Thank you for providing this list of themes. I am going over them one by one in attempt to choose the best one for my travel blog that I just recently started. I have nearly zero experience in creating a blog with wordpress and still learning about the features listed in the themes description like “Twitter Bootstrap 3”, “Contact Form 7”, “WPML compatible” and may others.

Thank you for sharing such a nice collection of themes. I have been looking for a new theme for my travel/photography blog and this certainly helps. I’m torn between Your Journey and Socha. My blog aims to teach how to take better pictures of the major landmarks/monuments/landscapes in the world. Which of those two options I’ve mentioned do you think would best fit my needs? Thank you!

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